MEET THE MENTORS
SDF’s next round of mentors will be announced in February.
Please contact our Program Manager, Christopher Everett at chris@southerndocumentaryfund.
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The SDF Mentorship Program is designed to pair established filmmakers and industry experts with emerging and new filmmakers. We provide support, which includes one-on-one mentorship, roundtable discussions, and feedback on work samples.
SDF’s next round of mentors will be announced in February.
Please contact our Program Manager, Christopher Everett at chris@southerndocumentaryfund.
Gerald K. Barclay, professionally known as Gee-Bee, is a Liberian-born,
director, producer, writer, cinematographer, and author. Gee-Bee began his filmmaking career in 1990 by working on Spike Lee’s Jungle Fever and King of New York.
Gee-Bee has directed hundreds of music videos for artists such as
Wu-Tang Clan, Master P., Snoop Dogg, Bounty Killa, Mystikal, Big Pun,
Ill & Al Skratch, and The Gap Band.
Besides music videos, Gee-Bee produced and directed “LIBERIA: THE LOVE
OF LIBERTY BROUGHT US HERE”, “Wu: The Story Of The Wu-tang Clan”,
BLOODY STREETZ, The Bully, and the critically acclaimed Fatima’s
Revenge. Gee-Bee’s latest endeavors include the concert film, “A Wu-Tang Experience: Live At Red Rocks Amphitheater”, “Life or
Death: The Silky Slim Story” along with civil rights attorney, Benjamin Crump.
Gerald’s latest projects are “No Not Me” a feature film on female circumcision in Liberia, and “Killa Hill”, a 10-part docuseries about devastating effects of the crack epidemic.
AREA OF EXPERTISE
Elisabeth Haviland James is a Emmy and Peabody award winning documentary producer, director and editor based in Durham, North Carolina, where her company, Thornapple Films, is headquartered. Her work spans the genre, including adventure, wildlife, music, sports, experimental, historical and cultural filmmaking. She is currently directing a film about a new opera by composer Damien Geter based on the story of Richard and Mildred Loving, and producing/editing a project on hardcore punk rock icon, Harley Flanagan.
AREA OF EXPERTISE
Robie Flores is an independent filmmaker and video editor based in New Orleans and Eagle Pass, Texas, drawn to telling stories that explore the nuances of her Fronterizo and Mexican American communities. Her first documentary feature, The In Between, which received support from Just Films, Chicken & Egg, Field of Vision, Firelight Media, and others, had its world premiere at SXSW. She also co-directed Boundless, a documentary short for Bridge Builders, an Independent Lens Stories for Justice series on criminal justice reform, and was the editor for Contessa Gayles’ Queen Collective commissioned short documentary, Founder Girls.
@robieflores
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Stephanie Kuo is the Vice President of Content at PRX, leading the public media organizatin’s content strategy and overseeing new acquisition, management and sustainability of its podcast and broadcast portfolios. Stephanie is an award-winning public radio journalist and independent podcaster, dedicated to building out a more radical and nimble public media system as well as a more open and accessible podcasting industry in the U.S. and abroad through creative and strategic content development.
AREA OF EXPERTISE
Southern Documentary Fund
Durham, NC 27701
info@southerndocumentaryfund.org 919-308-3714
P.O. Box 2614, Burlington, NC 27216
SDF is committed to making its programs and the facilities we use accessible to people of all abilities. If you need special accommodations, please contact info@southerndocumentaryfund.org or call (919) 308-3714.
One-on-one mentorship sessions and mentorship roundtables are only available to SDF supported makers at this time. An SDF supported maker is someone who has received a grant through SDF, or is fiscally sponsored by SDF. We will be hosting a limited number of mentorship webinars in the future that will be open to all.
